Byron's Travels: Poems, Letters, and Journals
Byron's Travels: Poems, Letters, and Journals A new hardcover selection of Lord Byron's letters, poems, and journals, tracing his dramatic, scandalous, heroic life and his wide-ranging travels--and…
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Byron's Travels: Poems, Letters, and Journals
A new hardcover selection of Lord Byron's letters, poems, and journals, tracing his dramatic, scandalous, heroic life and his wide-ranging travels--and timed to the two-hundredth anniversary of his tragic early deathGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron, was one of the leading figures of British Romanticism. Byron was known for his unconventional character and his extravagant and flamboyant lifestyle: he had numerous scandalous love affairs, including with his half-sister Augusta Leigh. The Byronic hero he gave his name to--the charming, dashing, rebellious outsider--remains a powerful literary archetype.
Lady Caroline Lamb, one of his lovers, famously described him as "mad, bad and dangerous to know."His letters and journals were originally published in two volumes; this new one-volume selection includes poems and provides a vivid overview of his dramatic life arranged to reflect
Poems and Letters